The mockingbirds and the jays, engaged in their old feud for possession of the magnolia tree beneath her window, were bickering, the jays strident, acrimonious, the mockers sweet voiced and plaintive.
Ambitious and eager to impress, I created this Excel document to track the things I thought mattered most for my students: letters, numbers, shapes and colors.
At the end of the day, no matter how motivated you think you will be, you won't be motivated to keep practising your English when it's so easy just to fall back to speaking your native language.
Now, that same scrappy union, the Amazon Labor Union that's run by former and current workers, they're trying to unionize the warehouse across the street.
Republicans are bullish about November's mid-term elections, when turnouts are usually low and the electorate skews whiter, older and more conservative.